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--(6 Bh ¢ Oshawa Funes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1962---PAGE 6 Alternative To Strike As Weapon National attention was drawn to the question of strikes last week by the Ontario Legislature's bill to send the Ontario Hydro worker - management dispute to compulsory arbitration and by a speech delivered at Vancouver by William Mahoney, Canadian direc- tor of the United Steelworkers of America. Mr. Mahoney's thesis was the time has come for organized labor to find some alternative to striking, because 2 combination of the high costs of strikes, persistent unemployment and legislation have greatly increased the difficulties of conducting effective and successful strikes. He said: "The improved standard of living and costly medical, hospital and insurance bene- fits which most of our members now enjoy, as well as the increased cost of living, make strikes extremely ex- pensive." Presumably Mr. Mahoney was speaking about the situation of his own union, but what would be true of the Steelworkers, a powerful and successful organization, would prob- ably be true of other unions. On the same day as Mr. Mahoney's speech, Hydro workers in Ontario were prevented from using the strike weapon by special legislation. The right to strike, to withdraw labor, in an effort to obtain a more favorable agreement with an employer, is Less People, Immigration to Canada has dropped substantially in the sixties -- 104;111 in 1960 and only 71,689 in 1961 -- but for some curious reason the costs of the immigration department have steadily increased. In 1958-59 the immigration depart- ment spent $52,844,000; in 1959-60 $54,917,000; in 1960-61 $61,049,000; and for the current year it is well over $70 million. There has been an in- crease of almost $18 million in just four years, with a substantial decrease in the number of immigration during the same period. The magazine Saturday Night sug- gests that "there is only one conclu- sion that can be drawn from this -- that it costs more to keep people out of Canada than it does to bring them For Labor jealously guarded by organized labor, and understandably so. It has been and remains the ultimate weapon. But what of the strike by a few thousand workers that can bring actual and serious suffering to many hundreds of thousands, even million, of people who are innocent and helpless bystanders to the dispute which brought about the walkout? That was the question faced by the Legislature last Thurs- day, and under the circumstances, we think the Legislature took the only possible action. The provincial govern- ment could probably have acted earlier and with more vigor and imagination to resolve the Hydro dispute, but that was not the question on Thursday. Thus we come back to Mr. Maho- ney's thesis. There should be an alter- native to the strike. We have no idea what it might be -- Mr. Mahoney admitted that he and his colleagues had given the matter much thought and had been baffled. But there are among our readers many knowledge- able and articulate people, with a long and abiding interest in the affairs of organized labor. We should like to hear their views on this subject, and we invite them to contribute those views to this page. It is possible that out of such an exchange of ideas there could come better solutions to the questions: posed by Mr. Mahoney and by the imposition of compulsory arbi- tration. More Cost in." We doubt if one should take so narrow a view, however. Possibly it is costing a lot more to lure im- migrants to Canada -- more immigra- tion personnel and more publicity to be paid for; in which case, Mrs. Fair- clough and her colleagues should ponder the reasons for the difficulty. Or possibly it has been costing a lot more to ferret out the people who have sneaked into Canada without going through the usual formalities. Th department, of course, is one of citizenship and immigration. Could the problems of citizenship account for $18 million? We suspect that none of these possible explanations accounts for the increased spending, and that it's just a care of Parkinson's First Law at work in the immigration department. Climbing Wage Rates One of the favorite complaints of business spokesmen in Canada and the United States is that they find it diffi- cult or impossible to compete against the lower-priced products of low-wage countries; labor costs, they says, put them at a great competitive dis- advantage. Well, one of these days they may find themselves without this particular cause of complaint. In many of the so-called low-wage coun- tries, there is a steadily building pressure for higher wages, and wage increases have in fact outstripped in- creases in productivity. In West Germany, for example, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, generally credited with being the man most responsible for the remark- able economic recovery of his country, has become alarmed at the rise of prices and wages there. North Amer- ican observers have wondered for years about the apparent placidity of the German workers, living as they The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Oshawa Times combini The Oshawo Times poles haga 1871) and the itby Gazette and ronicie (established 1863), is published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted). Members ot Canadion Daily Newspcper Publishers Association, The Conadion Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Doilies Asso- ciation. 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And that makes Dr. Erhard very unhappy; "it is high time to sober up and escape from the illusion that a nation can consume more than it can or is willing to produce," he says. He will probably be unhappier, since all the signs indicate that the German workers. want a still bigger share in their country's prosperity. According to the International Labor Office in Geneva, the general level of wages in Japan rose from 16,- 366 yen per month in 1953 to 24,573 yen (roughly $65) in 1960 -- and this does not reflect the substantial benefits provided by Japanese employ- ers. In the same period, average hourly rates of pay rose 38 per cent in Belgium, 60 per cent in West Ger- many and 70 pr cent in France. The wage situation is certainly not static. It responds inevitably to the pressure of living standards -- ach- jeved and sought. Other Editors' Views TRADING TOGETHER (Christian Science Monitor) If the American Civil War 100 years ago had (ested in a divided nation, neither df the economics could have enjoyed the growth and pros- perity of the free trade which now embraces 50 states. If the Western world even 10 years froni now is to display the full potential of what free men can achieve for their own living standard and the benefit of others, then the common markets of Amer- ican and Western Europe should co- operate rather than contend with each other. SMA AL OUR ENTRY IN THE GRAND PRIX YOUR HEALTH Nervous Husband Needs Treatment' By JOSEPH G. MOLNER Dear Dr. Molner: My husband has threatened suicide for the last three months. Recently he said she will '"'blow both our brains out."" Then he screams that he can't take it any more and runs into the bedroom, re- maining there for hours. He is 60 and holds a responsible posi- tion. I have tried to humor him but I am now at my wit's end. Any suggestion that he go to a doctor is futile--G. W. "Humoring" isn't going to help such a serious situation. To be sure, some people use threats to get their own way, but too often, especially in ma- ture people, such threats are not idle ones. Tell your OWN doctor the story, and let him help ar- range such measures as may be needed to see that your husband gets immediate examination and treatment. Dear Dr. Molner: I am a girl, 14. I have acne on my face, Now it is starting to clear up, Eskimo Child Now Can Walk ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- Civilizations can make many changes in the life of an Eskimo boy. For David Semigak, who was crawling on all fours when he arrived here two years ago, the important change was learning how to walk. David, from Makkovik on the northern coast of Labrador, was stricken with spinal tuberculosis as a baby. Both his legs were paralysed. For 12 years the best he could do was drag himself along with his hands. Recently David left here for Northwest River, near Goose Bay, Labrador, where he will go to school. As he boarded the plane he was able to walk with the aid of braces and crutches. He mastered the crutches after a year of surgery in hospital here and another year at a camp for crippled children. Officials of the camp had only one worry as they waved good- bye to David. He had learned to speak English during his two- year stay here and they weren't sure he still remembered the Eskimo dialect of his people. PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM To learn to enjoy living, learn to loaf without nagging yourself for not being busy doing some- thing you ought to be doing. The more contentious a per- son is in standing up for his rights, the more careless he is about discharging his duties. but I have coarse, dark, en- larged pores. They look terrible. What can I do to get rid of them?D. C. Nothing. You can expect the pores to become smaller and less obvious as time passes. You are, of course, fortunate that the acne is clearing. In some skins the pimples leave small scars. These also tend to shrink and become much less conspicuous. If, after the end of adolescence, the scars are a cosmetic problem, consult a dermatologist or a plastic surgeon about smooth- ing the scars. But I'd certainly wait several years. Dear Dr. Molner: In your opinion is it advisable to give-- tablets to high school athletes to help them gain weight and build muscles? --MRS .L. J. The drug you mentioned is a hormone, and I do NOT think it should be given to healthy young adults. The weight that a body should carry can be achieved by whole- some, balanced diet, adequate rest and judicious training. These will build strong mus- cles. Weight is not. necessarily muscle. For many sports, and for many athletes, mere addi- tional weight is not necessarily essential, If it is essential, in- crease the calories in the diet, but don't tinker with the body's metabolism. Dear Dr. Molner: My hus- band is 55 and of average weight. He now has an awful lot of gas on his stomach around the heart. He has always drunk about 20 cups of coffee a day. I wonter if this could be causing it.--MRS. W. It could be that the coffee fi- nally is catching up with him. That's pretty heavy coffee drinking. If he'd cut out coffee for a few weeks, it ought to give an indication of whether that's the trouble. (Drinking only caffein-removed types of coffee might help.) If the trou- ble still persists, I'd have the doctor check him over. It could be gall bladder, heart, or any of several commons troubles, and some treatment now may both make him more comfort- able and avert greater discom- fort in the future. Dear Dr. Molner: What causes ingrown toenails? Do pointed shoes have an_ influ- ence? 8. W. I doubt if a Sioux Indian ever had an ingrown toenail, because he never wore shoes. Nor have I noticed any trouble with "in- grown fingernails.'"" Why? Be- cause an ingrown nail is simply one that has been under con- tinued pressure so that, as it grew, it began to dig into the flesh instead of growing straight ahead as it should. If we wore shoes on our hands, and walked on 'em, we'd develop a few cases of ingrown fingernails, too. Do pointed toes of shoes have an effect? Yes, if we try to keep the shoes both pointed and short. BY-GONE DAYS 15 YEARS AGO Work was started on an ad- dition to the Oshawa Wholesale, McMillan Drive, costing $40,000. New officers for the year-old Oshawa Film Council who were elected for 1947-48, included Robert Ireland, president; Charles Game, vice-president and Norman Petre, secretary- treasurer. The Oshawa Ski Club held its final social event of the season. A suitable presentation was made by Miss Betty Metcalfe, Snow Queen of the year, to Harold Armstrong, president of the Club. Tenders were called by the Whitby Public Utility Commis- sion on construction of a propos- ed new building. At the regular meeting of Cor- inthian Lodge, No. 61, James Gregory, oldest member of the lodge who recently celebrated his 95th birthday, was presented with a purse of money on be- half of the lodge by W. G. Bun- ker. The Elizabethan Singers, un- der the direction of Lyona Hunt Mangan, presenetd a recital in St. Andrew's United Church. Township council set the 1947 tax rate at 32.9 mills for East Whitby Township. The new rate was a decrease of .6 mills from 1946, R. D. Humphreys, KC, presid- ed over Division Court in the ab- sence of His Honor Judge D. B Coleman who was in the Unit- ed States for two weeks. Building which totalled $162,- 500 in March was boosted by the $80,000 Duplate Ltd. exten- sion and the $40,000 addition to the Oshawa Wholesale Ltd. Deadline for the purchase of some 1200 new dog licences was May 1, according to Inspector G. O. Johnstone of the Oshawa Humane Society, Gayle Sanders of McMillan drive, received an honor award certificate from Lowney's Young Canada Club for her out- standing action in rescuing a three-year-old girl from the Oshawa Creek. City council] purchased an air compressor for the Board of Works in the amount of $3300. Customs collections for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1947 totalled $10,826,865, repre- senting $2,680,852 over the total collections for the previous fiscal year. @ THE MONTEGO... e@ THE BON AIRE... with an Air of Elegance @ THE BERMUDA... Tremendously Spacious Beau Valley THE GATE-WAY TU A PLEASANT PLACE TO LIVE COMING SOON: Excitingly Different OTTAWA REPORT Election Battles Fought In House By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- While the normal length of a general election campaign is an overlong 60 days, a good case could be ar- gued that the 1962 campaign has already been fought for that time on the floor of the House of Commons. In the first 10 weeks of this session, 21 days were spent on political wrangles under the heading of considering the sup- plementary estimates for ex- penditures, and a further 12 days went in similar partisan speeches, while only 18 days were left fon enacting legisla- tion. This needlessly long discus- sion of the supplementaries al- ready runs to nearly three times the average time similarly spent by the Conservative oppo- sition in 1952-56. Small wonder that Prime Min- ister Diefenbaker told a Mont- real audience that the "delay- ing tactics" adopted by the Liberals were "blocking legis- lative enactments we wish to place on the country's statute books." LIBERALS PROTEST That charge at once prompted the waste of a further 40 min- utes of Parliament's time, while Liberals Lionel Chevrier and Paul Martin protested that the prime minister's speech in Montreal infringed their privi- leges as MPs. They objected to the words: "I welcome full dis- cussion, but not mere repeti- tion; we have been held up by fruitless talk designed to delay the country's affairs." What is happening in the House of Commons is obvious. Paul Martin, however, kindly crossed the Ts and dotted the Is. to make this even clearer. To a question asking why time is thus being waged by the TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 9, 1962... The Pony Express, in which riders on horseback travelled in relays between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacra- mento, Calif., was launched 102 years ago today -- in 1860. The mail transport system cut to 14 days a trip that formerly took 30 to 40 by stagecoach. 1943--An RCAF raid left Krupp armament works at Essen, Germany, almost completely idle. 1936 Pruno Hauptm>rr was ¢ -cirocuted at 1 on ton, N.J., for the Lindbergh kidnapping. NEW CONSTITUTION BAGHDAD, Iraq AP)--Pre- mier Abdul Karim Kassem an- nounced a committee is being formed to draft a permanent constitution for the Iraq repub- lic. leading Liberals, Mr. Martin is quoted as replying: "Oh, don't you know what we are doing? Did you notice we have got the prime minister to lose his temper? So we are do- ing to him what he did to us in 1956. He exasperated us so much then that we did things we afterwards regretted, and we acted in a way which the Canadian people condemned." Mr. Martin thus indicates that the Liberals are trying to adapt the events of the 1956 debate on the Liberals' pipeline measure, and now trying to turn the ta- bles against the Conservatives. But whereas the Conserva- tives then in opposition, as well as the CCF and the Socreds, had solid reasons for protesting the Liberals' use of closure, and their roughshod trampling of the rights of Parliament, the Liberals have no such ground this year. They are wantonly wasting time, and attempting to provoke the government, on trivialities such as Arizona Charlie's thea- tre in Dawson City; and, as , Lionel Chevrier and others indi- cated, in trying to destroy by ridicule "the vision of northern development" which so strongly appealed to the voters four years ago. This "vision,"" the .Liberals have suggested, was dreamed up after a visit to Arizona Charlie's bar, and was aimed at building roads, not for the purpose of opening up the min- eral wealth of the north, nor even "from igloo to igloo," but "from Klondike saloon to Klon- dike mortuary." With all eyes on the election now long since expected in mid- June, and with parliamentary attention focussed more on bal- lots than on business, it has be- come abundantly clear that Prime Minister Diefenbaker has no alternative but to ask the voters as soon as possible to give him their mandate, to carry on with the important legislation aimed to benefit Ca- nadians, which now is being de- ferred not in the interests of Canada but for the purpose so clearly defined by Paul Martin, REPORT FROM U.K. Aircraft Noises Bother Students By M. McIntyre Hood Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The Education Committee of the Middlesex area, of Hayes and Harlington, which lies adjacent to the Lon- don Heathrow Airport, has a problem on its hands, and un- usual proposals are being made for its solution. There are two large schools, one a secondary school, near the airport. The educational authorities have been inundated by complaints that the hundreds of children in these two schools are being hindered in their studies by the noise from jet aircraft depart- ing and arriving on long run- ways which come close to the schools. After investigating various methods in which this noise could be offset, since the jet airline traffic is increasing steadily and no relief is likely in the volume of noisy traffic, a unique proposal has been made. One of the members of the education committee, Councillor J. H. W. Johnson, said that the committee must face the prospect of schools near the airport having to be built underground in the future. TOO EXPENSIVE A suggestion that all the classrooms affected by. the noise be soundproofed was re- jected by the education com- mittee on the ground that it would be much too expensive. The Middlesex County Council's Education Committee also ne- gatived this proposal on the ground that it could not be carried out satisfactorily. The chief education officer has suggested that teachers be supplied with amplifiers so that they can be clearly heard above the noise from the aircraft and from the traffic on the road leading to the airport. This proposal has also been rejected. The two schools affected are the William Byrd school, with 318 pupils and Harlington Secondary School, with 612 pup- ils. : UNDERGROUND SCHOOLS Councillor Johnson said that the future problem for schools near large airports must be the fantastic cost of soundproofing, weighed against the tremendous expenditure of building under- ground schools. "Children are very suscept- ible to these high - pitched noises" said Councillor John- son. "But I think that under- ground schools need be only 10 to 15 feet below the surface to ensure the necessery quiet. But instead of large schools they would have to be split inte smaller units." Mr. Johnson pointed to the quiet of empty, well-ventilated underground railway stations as "about the quietest places on earth'. Said Councillor Johnson: "We could even have blue skies painted on the ceilings for the pupils. The only trouble is that there might be a suggestion of 'sending the children down a mine', but I think they would be better off there than putting up with noise in ordinary class- rooms near the London Air- port." for business... for pleasure FLY TCA TORONTO fo NEW YORK ® most frequent service ®@ up to 8 flights daily @ $54 Economy return See your Travel Agent or contact TCA et: 130 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ont. TRANS-CANADA AIR LINES (@) AIR CANADA 22 SIMCOE ST. MEADOWS TRAVEL SERVICE SOUTH 723-9441 MAKE ALL ARRANGEMENTS WITH DONALD TRAVEL SERVIC OSHAWA--WHITBY--BROOKLIN 300 DUNDAS ST. EAST WHITBY MO 8-3304